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Just before the hearing Was tintcd—forris asked Sefvice Wie wes a member of the Communist paity, receiving a denial, and then demanded: H "Have you ever transmitied secret military items to Jaffe?” Bervice hesitated. *T don't mean to quibble,” he sald, “but there must be a de-! finition of terms. I have never, knowingly transmitted secret mili-! tary plans but in discussions it was customary to give writers, for their guidance, information! which was in classified (secret) documents.” Morris demanded__that..testh | mony given the FBI at closed sex sions concerning Service be read into "the record 0 that he_neuld éss-examine the witners on_it. Tydings refused the request. Secret Payer Presented After Service completed read- ing a Jengthy and detailed state- ment, which accused former Am- bassador to China Patrick “J. Hurley and McCarthty of maxing: false charges against him, com: mittee counsel Edward P. Motgam produced a, photdstitic copy ot one of the documents” seized) in the Amerasia raid. Never_befpre made_public, it. read: “The Stilwell affair and Wuy- ley's appointment. | "THis information. classified #5) ton secret (“eyes only”) is sup- | plied by John S. Service, Special | caution must be shown in the use, of the two White House messages | to Chiang Kai-shek whose text is: given below. { ‘The first message, paraphrased | by Service on May 19, 1945, was: “The situation in China Is desperate and calls for drastic steps. The President (Roorevelt) therefore sugeests that all armies | in China, including those of the: Communists, be placed under an American commander. Although the President knows of Chiang’s! dislike for Gen. (Joseph) Stilwell, he nevertheless believes that Stil-, ell's experience and record make : im the best man for the job."] | econd Message Offered “About 10 days after the Pres- dent's first message, another mes- | sage arrived at Chungking. Jt} gives a fair indication of Chiang’s | reply to the White House. The secolid message said in essence: “*T am glad that you are in principle agrecd to my surgestion for an American commander over all the forecs in the China theater. Although, a5 you say. there are political factors which must he considered and there js also the important question of timing. I be- lieve that the situation is 50 urgent that we should not delay: the political questions can cer-: tainly be solved, I agree with your Suggestion for a high ranking political representative who can iscuss the political and military atters and I am looking now ~o ind auch a man who can haye our complete confidence.’ “Service is not sure who was respomsrie for the ¢holesof Hin Jey but belleves that) Harry Hop- king as F.DR.’s chief adviser, had his hand in the selection. Hurley arrived in Chungking inj September a few weeks afler Stilwell became a four-star gen- eral. At first Hurley. was friendiy with Stilwell but later went over |, to the Chinese view that Stilweli ttet Ke Fix i must be fired for the sake of Sino-| American unity. Stilwell today be- jlieves that Hurley stabbed him In the back by strongly urging the, President to recall Stilwell.” Service declared he had not’! given this paper to Jafee, He said | he recalled a conversation in the | home of Mark Gayn, a writer, (another defendant in the Amer: ; asia case who went free) in which he gave Gayn the geist of the document while Mrs. Gayn took shorthand notes. He offered the theory that Gayn turned the re- | port over to Jaffe but said this. as only an assumption. Service insisted the informatio He gnve Gayn was not secret af, he time he gave it, in May 19431 | hight months after the White House messages were sent. When he asserted that the “eyes only” marking on the dispatches was not a security classification, Sen. Lodge (R) of Massachusetts said it was one of the highest security Ta hate i labels possible. ; Both Morgan and Sen, Hicken- looper questioner érvice con: ceming. an_FBI report. based upon. dictaphone_ recordings taken_jna Statler hotel room adjacent that octiipied by Jaffe, central figure_ in the spy case, Jafie now faces) 'a Senate contempt tiation. tor ' refiSing to “answer _auestions can- cerfing his role in the case_and whether he Is a member of the Communist party. Service had admitted giving doc- uments to Jaffe on three occ sfons but again insisted, as i ‘the case with Gayn, that thes pers, although some of the were marked “secret,” were n longer confidential. The FBI agents Hstened to a conversation, between Service and Jaffe and the questions asked Service were based upon their report. Service “Can't Recall” “Did you ever say to Jaffe in his hotel room that ‘the military ‘information in these documents is secret or top secret and must be carefully handled’?” asked Hicken- looper. “T did not give him military 41 formation in documents,” asserte Service. “Did you make that remark 'Maffe?” am “T do not recall it,” said Service, ¢c srr “In discu’sing—tme over-all picture of the sltuation in China, I may have made some statements for his use as back-! ground material but not for pub- Heation. I could not say We never: discussed anything that was tech- ; nically secret nor touched upon something of military significance. I expect we did.” ; Service said he first met Jaffe | on April 19, 1945, less than two months before the arrests in the Amerasia case, and asserted he had never sent reports to Jaffe before that date. He was in- formed that a number of dis- patches and reports, bearing his name, had been found in the Amerasia raid and insisted he could not explain how they ar- rived there. He said the docu nis he did give Jaffe were ail Turned to him. cfr Memeo to Jaffe Service recounted various meet- ings with Jaffe, Roth, Gayn, Kate Mitchell, cueditor of Amerasia, and Emmanuel 5. Larsen, the other five arrested, picturing him- self as innocently providing in- formation on China to these per- sons. He gave Jaffe only eight or 10 “personal memoranda’ on his observations in China, he sai 3, ware hy i never been in which had files. The witness also sald he was acquainted with Owen Lattimore, State department consultant, wha has been named an espionage agent by McCarthy and Louis Budenz, former Communist edi- tor, He spent a week end at the Lattimore home in Baltimore, just before the Amerasia arrests, in company with Roth and others, he said, Asked if he knew Lavchlin Cur- rie, former White House adminis- trative assistant, Service said he annealed to Currie for “advice folowing his arrest. Currie wa ngmed by Elizabeth Bentley, tted Soviet agent, as one of h informants. a 2 i JUN 23 1950